The Telephone Game?

You remember it, right? The “Telephone Game.” It’s when you tell someone at one end of a group of people formed in a line a full sentence. It goes down the line until the last person reports what the message was. A fun game for a group of children that teaches an important principle. Communication.

I think that’s what happened with the Miners in West Virginia yesterday. Psychologists call it “spontaneous contasion” — when a whole group gets excited and then avalanches it’s emotion on even the unsuspecting.

But in my opinion, I think that shortly after the bad news of “twenty minutes later” — communication should have been released to everyone. Information is truly what was lacking here. I’m not talking about a full-blown press conference, just a statement that lets everyone know what the command center knew. Not 1, 2, or 3 hours later, but as soon as the news is clear and releasable the news should have come forth.

The Governor is also slightly backpeddling. The 20 minutes is turning to 30 minutes and that he is totally innocent about the correct info being released. (sigh)

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~ by bayfeed on January 4, 2006.